Climate Pact Ambassadors’ Recommendations for the new EU Agenda 2024-2029
Why this document? Six Belgium Climate Pact Ambassadors have gathered their thoughts and recommendations in this document to inspire the EU Commission’s next 2024-2029 agenda, in the hope to see it reflect citizens’ needs, the reduction of inequalities as well as the preservation of natural resources and planetary boundaries as an utmost priority. To this […]
Facing local environmental challenges through children participation : the key to an inclusive green transition
Children, the new sustainable entrepreneurs Today, recurring news about climate change, natural disasters, biodiversity loss or heightened pollution pose a real risk to the well-being of children as they face greater uncertainty towards their future. To answer this challenge, learners’ active participation in finding solutions can make a difference. Participation indeed develops a feeling of […]
Outside Green Business Collection
The realization of the Collection containing the environmental promotion and sustainability projects carried out by the students had the following phases: 1. Creation of Open Communities of learning 2. Definition of environmental projects 3. Implementation of project-based learning activities in partner schools 4. OUTSIDE Transnational mobility of students in Croatia, Zagreb, September, 2022 5. The […]
YGBN Toolkit: Young women going back to nature
This toolkit is specially designed for specialists who work with the young women at risk. Young women in our society may grapple with a range of complex issues, including mental health challenges, peer pressure, body image, and self-esteem concerns, academic stress, relationship challenges, family dynamics, financial insecurity, substance abuse, gender inequality, experiences of violence and […]
Research report: democratic education in schools (executive summary)
View as a pdf Democratic education is an educational philosophy that has existed since the end of the XIX century. It is grounded on two fundamental principles: SELF-DETERMINATIONChildren making primary decisions regarding their learning experiences, emphasising autonomy. DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY PROCESSESChildren learn to articulate their views, collaborate and negotiate agreements through democratic community processes in which […]
Education in nature: the bedrock of our future
Education in nature is the bedrock of the European Union’s inclusive green transition – a green transition that needs to guarantee children’s rights and well-being while recognising education as essential towards its achievement.Without reconnecting children with nature, our common goals to reduce carbon emissions and protect biodiversity are meant to remain limited. Indeed, learning in […]
Outside Joint Report
This report outlines the results emerging from the desk and field research in the four partner countries: Italy, Croatia, Belgium, Lithuania.Before presenting a focus on each country’s result and a compared analysis from the four countries, the report briefly introduces what were the aims of the research and what has been the methodology put in […]
Position Paper on Open Schooling
Opening schools: Embracing learner’s and society’s mutual imprint
Impact Report: Building skills through training Therapy animals
The BUSTA (Building Skills through Training therapy Animals) project is a partnership project, financed by the European Union, between six organisations in three different countries – Belgium, Lithuania and Bulgaria. Three schools and three associations worked upon creating alternative school programs and educational approaches including activity sessions with therapy animals in the period of March […]
Guidelines: Building Skills through Training of therapy Animals
The BUSTA (Building Skills through Training therapy Animals) project is a partnership project, financed by the European Union, between six organisations in three different countries – Belgium, Lithuania and Bulgaria. Three schools and three associations worked upon creating alternative school programs and educational approaches including activity sessions with therapy animals in the period of March […]